Fashionable woman or Merveilleuse in a low-cut dress, 1801. She has a Babet straw hat, a low-cut dress tied with foliage, and a kerchief used as a belt under the bust. The Babet hat was taken from a character played by Mme Louise-Rosalie Dugazon in Blaise et Babet, Comedie Italienne. Chapeau a la Babet. Fichu en Ceinture. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1801. The illustrations in volume 4 were by Carle Vernet, Bosio, Dutailly and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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